| Olympus Has Fallen | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Antoine Fuqua |
| Produced by | Gerard Butler Alan Siegel Mark Gill |
| Written by | Creighton Rothenberger Katrin Benedikt |
| Starring | Gerard Butler Aaron Eckhart Morgan Freeman Angela Bassett Robert Forster Cole Hauser Finley Jacobsen Ashley Judd Melissa Leo Dylan McDermott Radha Mitchell Rick Yune |
| Music by | Trevor Morris |
| Cinematography | Conrad W. Hall |
| Editing by | John Refoua |
| Production company | Millennium Films |
| Distributed by | FilmDistrict |
| Release date(s) | March 22, 2013 |
| Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $70,000,000 |
| Gross revenue | $161,025,640 |
| Followed by | London Has Fallen |
Olympus Has Fallen is an American thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman. The film was theatrically released on March 22, 2013.
Plot
Former U.S. Army Ranger Mike Banning is the lead Secret Service agent assigned to head the Presidential Detail. He maintains a personal, friendly relationship with President Benjamin Asher, First Lady Margaret and, especially, their son Connor. During a Christmas evening drive from Camp David to a campaign fundraiser on December 25, 2011, a tree branch falls and strikes the front of the president’s convoy, making the vehicles skid out of control on black ice on a bridge. The lead vehicle crashes through the guard rail and falls into the icy river below, leaving the presidential limousine teetering on the edge of the bridge. Banning is able to save President Asher, but Margaret and two other agents die when their vehicle falls and crashes.
Eighteen months later on July 5th 2013, Banning works at the Treasury Department, within sight of the White House. He has been removed from the Presidential Detail because the sight of him triggers Asher’s memories of the night Margaret died. During a political meeting between Asher and South Korean Prime Minister Lee Tae-Woo, North Korean-led guerilla forces, under the guise as local garbage services and a crowd of tourists, mount an air and ground assault. Aided inside the White House by treasonous members of Prime Minister Lee’s detail, Dave Forbes, an ex-US Secret Service agent turned private contractor, and aerial cover fire from a US military gunship, the attack results in the eventual capture of the White House. Asher and several top officials are held hostage in the White House bunker, where Prime Minister Lee is killed. Before he is killed, Agent Roma alerts the Director of the Secret Service Lynne Jacobs that “Olympus has fallen”.
The attack has been masterminded by Kang Yeonsak, a former North Korean terrorist who appears to be motivated by hope for a reunification of Korea. Kang seeks to use Asher’s hostage status as leverage to force U.S. officials to withdraw military forces from the Korean Peninsula, allowing the civil war to end. He also seeks to destroy all of America’s nuclear weapons in their respective silos spread across the country and turn the United States into an irradiated wasteland as revenge for the deaths of his parents when his mother was killed by an American landmine and his father was executed for crimes against North Korea. To accomplish this, he requires the access codes to Cerberus: a fail-safe device that self-detonates any U.S. nuclear missiles during an abort, which are held by three top government officials within the bunker, including the president. Asher orders the other two officials to reveal their codes to save their lives, certain that he will not give up his code.
During the assault by Kang’s forces on the front lawn, Banning joins the White House’s defenders. He falls back into the building, disables the internal surveillance and gains access to Asher’s satellite phone, which he uses to maintain contact with Jacobs and Allan Trumbull, the Speaker of the House who is now the Acting President. Authorized to proceed, Banning’s first act is to save Connor, who Kang plans to use to force Asher to reveal his Cerberus code. Despite resistance, Banning finds Connor hiding in the hidden tunnels behind the Lincoln bedroom walls, thanks to the training Banning had given him before, and sneaks him out of the White House before beginning reconnaissance and reducing the terrorists’ numbers one by one. This includes Forbes, but not before Banning convinces Forbes to report to Kang that he killed Banning. Meanwhile, Army Chief of Staff General Edward Clegg convinces Trumbull to order an aerial SEAL assault on the White House in an attempt to enter through the roof and shut down Cerberus, but Kang’s team deploys an advanced anti-aircraft remote gun system called the Hydra 6, a fully automated weapons system capable of seeking targets independently. Discovering this, Banning advises Trumbull and Clegg to abort the mission, but it proceeds and the Hydra 6 annihilates all but one of the six helicopters before Banning can stop it. Kang retaliates for the attempted infiltration by killing Vice President Charlie Rodriguez on an open line to the Pentagon crisis room.
After Banning disables Kang’s communications, Kang tries to execute Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan outside the White House in front of the media, but Banning's intervention allows her to escape and he takes out several more of Kang’s men in the process. With Kang’s forces dwindling, he fakes his own death as well as Asher’s by sacrificing several of his men and the remaining hostages. However, Banning believes that Kang has faked his death and he believes he will attempt to sneak away. Kang eventually cracks Asher’s code and activate Cerberus. As Kang attempts to escape with Asher, Banning kills the remaining terrorists, but President Asher is shot by Kang in the stomach when Asher tried to fight Kang. Banning kills Kang by stabbing him in the head with a knife after overpowering him in hand-to-hand combat. Banning disables Cerberus with the assistance of Trumbull with only seconds to spare. During daybreak that day, Banning walks out with Asher and is received by the soldiers posted to await their arrival. Sometime after the events, Washington begins to heal from the terrorist attack and Banning once again becomes head of the Presidential Detail with Banning, Jacobs, Clegg, and Connor observing President Asher as he addresses the public.
Credits
Cast
- Gerard Butler as Mike Banning
- Aaron Eckhart as President Benjamin Asher
- Morgan Freeman as Speaker Allan Trumbull
- Angela Bassett as Lynne Jacobs
- Dylan McDermott as Dave Forbes
- Melissa Leo as Secretary of Defense Ruth McMillan
- Rick Yune as Kang Yeonsak
- Ashley Judd as Margaret Asher
- Finley Jacobsen as Connor Asher
- Robert Forster as General Edward Clegg
- Radha Mitchell as Leah Banning
- Cole Hauser as Agent Roma
- Tory Kittles as Agent Jones
- Lance Broadway as Agent O'Neil
- Shane Land as Agent Davis
- Freddy Bosche as Agent Mark Diaz
- Phil Austin as Vice President Charlie Rodriguez
- Sean O'Bryan as NSA Deputy Director Ray Monroe
- Keong Sim as South Korean Prime Minister Lee Tae-Woo
- James Ingersoll as Admiral Joe Hoenig
- Malana Lea as Lim
- Kevin Moon as Cho
- Sam Medina as Yu
- Shanna Forrestall as Mary Jane Fuller
Supporting Cast
- Edrick Browne as Head Technician
- Tim Abell as additional voice-overs for Blackhawk pilots, Secret Service Agents and general military types
- Josiah D. Lee as Korean Pilot
- Mike Snyder as News Reporter #1
- Sean Boyd as Raptor Pilot
- Hunter Burke as Army Tech Officer
- Aonika Laurent as News Reporter #2
- Jace Jeanes as Sniper #1
- Sione Ma'umalanga as Sniper #2
- Ian Casselberry as Long-Haired EMT
- Dorothy Deavers as Mrs. Mosely
- Han Soto as Male Doctor
- Amber Dawn Landrum as Nurse
- Kenneth Wayne Bradley as Crisis Room Radio Man
- Bill Stinchcomb as Watch Officer
- Michelle Celeste as News Reporter #3
- Met Salih as News Reporter #4
- Darrell L. Connerton as CIA Director
- Terry Dale Parks as Army Commander
- Michael Stallings as Army Lieutenant
- Robert Miskowski as Pentagon Aide
- Elliott Grey as FBI Assistant Director
- Reporters Playing Themselves
- Reporters Hamish MacDonald, Lawrence O'Donnell and Rick Chambers
- Actors Playing Reporters
- Scott Walker, Catherine Shreves, Donna Hubbs, Lee Sheridan and Becka Rose
- Secret Service Agents actors
- Austin Abel, Michael AvMen, Nic Brown, Michael Byrnes, Ginger Cerio, Terry Canova, Cody Daniel, Lewis Crawford, Clay Dove, Barry Hanley, Jennie Lieber, Mark Lawyer, Laine Dubroc, Michael McCormick, Tony McCullough, Diezel Ramos, Nathan Scott, John Mangus, Mark Stefanich and Morgan Jaye Williams
- Rex Baker as a Navy SEAL
- Civilians/Tourists actors
- Amanda Bosley, Matthew Ballard, Johnny Brannon, Arianna Miskowski, Elijah Miskowski, Rhonda Miskowski, Shanna Vincent, Amy Vaughan, James Paul and Philippe Radelet
- Ricky French as a Tourist and a Gov't official
- Michael P Gardner as a Secret Service Agent and SEAL Team Copter Pilot
- Jeramie Dominguez as Korean Co-Pilot
- Arden Cho, Peter Jae, Zero Kazama, Scott Yi and Woon Young Park as Korean Commandos/Stunt Performers
- Wes Sutton as F-22 Pilot
- Danny Le Boyer as a Korean Commando and an Army Soldier/Stunt Performer
- Lewis Tan as Various Commandos/Stunt Performer
- Ho-Sung Pak and Don Thai Theerathada as Interrogated Commandos/Stunt Performers
- Nathan Tremaine as a Secret Service Agent and SEAL Team Sniper
- David Lee Valle and Joshua Robertson as EOC Techs
- Jason Yee as Korean Motorcade Agent/Stunt Performer
- Andy Wayne as FBI Aide
- Brent Weisner as Blackhawk Pilot #1
- Stephen Waters as Injured Commando in Hospital, Hostage, Tourist and White House Commando
- Greg Washington as Aide to the FBI Director
- Mary Alfred Thoma as Mary
- Lj Smith as Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
- Giovanni Silva as a Sniper, an Army Ranger and a Secret Service Agent
- David Joseph Martinez as a Senate Intelligence Officer
- Codie Rimmer as a Press Room Reporter and a Wounded Tourist
- Joshua Antwon Leonard as an Armed Guard
- Nat Milo as Pentagon Korean Analyst and a Korean Sniper
- Alice Searcy as a Wounded Tourist and a Tourist
- Cody Pottkotter as a Sniper
- Claude Miles as an Army Ranger and a Secret Service Agent
- Eddie Matthews and Pauline Boudreaux as White House Doctors/Stunt Performers
- Cesar Martinez as a Secret Service Agent and a Hostage
- Deborah R. Jones as Pentagon Aide
- Steve Jimenez as Taxi Driver and Secret Service Agent
- Ronnie Hooks as Director of Homeland Security
- A. Michelle Harleston as Jacob's Military Aide
- William G. Gil as Soldier
- Michael Hollandsworth as Air Force 4-Star General
- Candiss Nicole Gandy as a Hostage, a Secretary, a Commando and a Secret Service Agent
- Bob Fanucchi as a Paramilitary Operations Officer
- Sarah Lynn Eilts as White House Secretary
- Gary Eoff as Marine Sgt. Johnson
- James DeWitt III as Command Center Soldier
- Sheri Davis as ER Doctor
- Raul Colon as Army man
- John C. Coffman, Mickey Parson and Daniel Garner as Marine Corps Generals
- Quincy Castillo as scarred patient's male nurse
- Celeste Sunshyne Burgess as innocent tourist bystander
- Brent Sparks as scarred patient in hospital
- Vicki Lynn Hollins as traumatized hospital bystander
- John Marty as Pentagon aide
- Michelle Floyd Davis as a civilian in the background behind Mike Banning
- Heather Rene Hutson as pedestrian and extra with car
- Lorie Williams as Camp David Staff Member
- Extras
- Judy Duff-Lundy, Andy Burnett, Ford C. Bevens, Andrei Constantinescu, Ira Cooks, John Callahan, Jennifer Turman Kimball, Shenelle Wallace Price, Colleen A. McCoy, Terry Ash Ebbo, Laura Rader Michaud, Cheyenne Anderson, Rachael McQuade Cothran, Adam Cothran, Donnie McCaa and Megan Devora
- Jerald Amaya Sr. as 4 different extra roles
- Robin Lee Canode as 2 different extra roles
- Kelley Wyskiel as several different extra roles.
- Additional Extras.
- Rod Tait, Dalys Cordero, James Frey, Russ Skains, Mary Kim, Bill Easy, Tracy B. Elkins, Alex Lung-Chih Shiue, Dave Moon and Jackie Ogle Anderson
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External Links
- Olympus Has Fallen at the Internet Movie Database
- Olympus Has Fallen at Wikipedia